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Qantas Airways, South, And Northern Territory Aerial Services

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Qantas Airways
Qantas was found in Winton, Queensland on 16 November 1920 as Queensland and northern territory aerial services limited by Paul McGuinness, Hudson Fysh, Fergus McMaster and Arthur Baird. The airlines first aircraft was an Avro 504K. The aircraft has a cruising speed of 105 kilometres per hour and carried one pilot and two passenger. 84 years old Alexander Kennedy was the first passenger receiving ticket number one. The airline operated air mail services subsidised by the Australian government, linking railheads in western Queensland.
Qantas Airways Ltd. is Australia 's number one domestic airline and a leader in the Asia-Pacific region. It is one of the ten largest airlines in the world and is considered to be the second …show more content…

Qantas is divided into three closely related groups, Commercial, Customer and Marketing, and Operations. The Commercial group includes sales and distribution, commercial planning, QantasLink and alliances. Customer and Marketing includes customer experience, cabin crew, inflight services and marketing. The Operations group comprises engineering, airports, catering, flight operations, operations planning and control and Qantas Aviation Services. Jetstar, the Group’s low fares airline also manages the Jetstar Asia operations based in Singapore. In addition to the airline brands, the Qantas Group operates Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Freight. The Group has additional equity interests in airline and airline-related businesses, including a 27 per cent stake in Vietnam’s Jetstar Pacific; a 46 per cent interest in Air Pacific and an interest in Jetset Travelworld Group. Qantas is also a partner with Australia Post in two jointly controlled entities: Australian air Express, a domestic air freight operator; and Star Track Express, a national road freight business.

Between 1926 and 1928 they built seven de Havillanddh.50 and a single DH9. In 1928 a chartered Qantas aircraft made the inaugural flight of the royal flying doctor service of Australia. In 1934 Qantas limited formed a new company with Britain’s Imperial airways and the name of the airline was, Qantas Empire Airways Limited (QEA). Each partner held 49% and

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